Increasingly the model for sustainable development includes NGO programs started with seed funding with the aim to be self-sustaining after a set period of time. In the case of community Internet centers sustainability raises the issue of how the benefits from the project relate to the ability or willingness of the target communities to pay for the project's outputs, or the willingness of project sponsors (government or institution) to underwrite costs in the long run.
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'Thanks to market forces, even the world's poorest people are beginning to benefit from the flow of digital information.' Jeffrey Sachs, The Guardian, August 21 2008.
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This is a review of the book by Jonathan Zittrain, 'one of a group of technically literate legal scholars who have clarified what's at stake politically, economically, and culturally in choices about the architecture of the new media.' The review notes: 'At the core of his thinking is a distinction between what he calls 'generative' and 'sterile' technologies. Generative technologies allow anyone to build upon them without permission, whereas sterile technologies are controlled by their manufac more...
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Abstract: 'The use of new technologies to provide remote health care is a growing trend in Canada and internationally, and parallels the availability of broadband networks for the delivery of education and training. The introduction of new technologies into health care represents both a challenge and an opportunity for health education, and demands that physicians, nurses, and other partners in health care provision acquire new knowledge and skills. Contemporary approaches to patient-cantered he more...
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Description: 'The Internet will be of most use to cropping farmers when providers of agricultural information use it less like a library and more like an interactive field day. It is not its scarcity but the local contextualization of information that makes it valuable for farmers. The huge volume of information available on the Internet is of less value to farmers than the opportunities for interactivity with others that it provides to help make local sense of that information. There is a misma more...
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This is the first year that TeleConnections has offered the awards and it is pleasing to say that the judges were confronted by a veritable smorgasbord of innovative entries. Thanks to the vendors and service providers who encouraged their clients to enter. There were six categories and all project entries must have been commenced after July 2003 with the exception of the Veteran User category. And the winners are...
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‘The vision of Biher is that by the end of 2012, Bihar becomes one of the top five e-Governed, IT-enabled, e-Literate States in the Country and is regarded as a preferred destination for IT businesses and is a major supplier of skilled IT manpower.’
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